I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I think that the most atrocious of all of this is Islam. They were in the slave trade before Islam. The Arabs were natural slave traders. They were the people who were called on to conquer us, unfortunately.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.

You should not bear insults.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.